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Optimize Computer Performance—How to Optimize Computer Performance in All-round Ways
Jan 5th
Since you have been using computer for a long time, it is undeniable that computer performance is reducing day by day, such as computer is running slower and slower, or an increasing number of junks are piling up in the computer.
If such problems have occurred in your computer, it is an alarm that you should take some actions to fix them so as to optimize computer performance. Well, that is what I want to tell you in this article.
1. Clean and optimize registry
When Windows boot up, system needs to read data in the registry and put them in the ram temporarily. Windows spend most time in this regard. Therefore, it is necessary to clean and optimize registry. As for how to do that, you can turn to certain optimizer to help you.
2. Delete excessive dynamic library link files.
In the Windows-based operating systems, there are many dynamic library link files in the system subdirectory. Among them, some are shared by many files while some are quite useless. In order to free up disk space and improve computer speed, you can delete them on condition that you are skillful in computer technology.
3. Maintain system regularly.
If you have put too many games and applications with lot of old and useless data, it is no doubt computer is running slower and slower as well as booting computer.
Therefore, you should maintain computer completely at proper intervals. For example, to defragment disk is really a good way to improve computer performance. Besides, it is a must to defragment the disk where you put systematic programs. This is the right way to speed up starting up order of Windows correctly.
4. Expand virtual memory
If you have large disk, it is quite suitable for you to set virtual memory. You can point to a disk that is seldom used and then fix maximum and minimum values which is twice as that of physical memory. In this way, when virtual memory is applying hard disk, the value does not have to change unstably. Instead, system can apply fixed space as virtual memory so as to speed up read-write speed.
What is more, it is advisable for you to set the values after defragmentation because virtual memory should be put in a continuous space without any fragment. Only by doing this, it can play greater role in optimizing computer performance.
If you are eager to optimize computer performance, you should follow the steps one by one because I have introduced the main causes and solutions to improve computer performance in all-round way.
Optimize Computer Performance—Useful Knowledge to Optimize Computer Performance in Terms of Programs
Dec 23rd
Have you found your computer performance is decreasing day by day? For example, it takes more and more time to open files, visit websites or play games. You may have heard a lot of methods to optimize computer performance. Today, in this article, I would like to introduce certain methods to improve computer performance in terms of programs.
Since some of programs in the Windows are extremely significant for computer, they should take priority of others. That is to say, such core program performance plays important in computer stable running. Well, how to enhance the performance of core programs in the Windows?
When there are several programs running in the Windows, it is normal that Windows may replace the memory which may not be used currently to hard disk in order to perform several programs at the same time within relatively little memory. However, the frequent replacement between memory and hard disk in the way can slow down the speed of performing programs for sure because system has to run come-and-go.
As for the core programs in the Windows, they have to face such replacement as well. If memory is too low when system is running certain program, Windows may put some of the core programs to the hard disk which are not used currently. Although programs are running smoothly in this way, it has to take more and more time to use these replaced programs again when you need them because system has to move them from hard disk to memory. In this regard, it may reduce system running efficiency without question.
Therefore if the memory is not large enough, you can set not to replace kernel programs and just let them always resident in the memory so as to optimize computer performance.
In order to do that, you can modify the registry. Click “Start”—“Run” and type “REGEDIT”. Then, you can open “Registry Editor”, find out “HKEY/LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CURRENTCONTROLSET/CONTROL/Session Manager/Memory/ Management” and set up or edit DWORD value named “Disable Paging Executive” in the right blanket and then change the key value as “1” which means you have forbidden replacing core programs while 0 means you can allow such operation. Do remember to clear up registry after doing changes in it.
If your computer memory is too low, you can set the value of virtual memory properly so as to maximize the space for running programs smoothly.
Program performance is very important for computer running. If you want to optimize computer performance, it is necessary for you to consider optimizing program at first.
Optimize Windows Performance—Helpful Ways to Optimize Windows Performance
Dec 17th
Although your computer is working very well for you at present, it is necessary for you to learn some ways to optimize window performance. In this article, I would like to share some methods to change Windows default settings so as to optimize computer performance.
Disable Script Debugging.
When Internet Explorer has encountered script errors in the pages, it will report this error. Unless you are debugging the programs, it is impossible to rectify errors even you have known its specific reasons. Therefore, for most users, such function is rather good for nothing. You can forbid it for sure. Open Internet Explorer and choose “Tools” > “Internet Options” > “Advanced”. In this tab, scroll downward the list and find “Browsing” and tick “Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)”.
Refuse grouping similar taskbar.
Although Windows has provided such function to lessen the number of open windows, it is inconvenient to open many windows of same kind at a time. For example, when you are using certain communication software, if there are more than two friends chatting with you, it is rather fussy to do that. Because every time when you want to switch, you have to click the group and choose the friend, what is worse, the displaying icons are the same. If there are too many friends chatting at the same time, you may need to click one by one. In this regard, you had better just restore the previous state.
Clicking “Start” > “Control Panel” > “Appearance and Themes” > “Taskbar and Start Menu”, in the “Taskbar” tab, cross out “Group similar taskbar buttons”. You can improve computer performance a lot by doing this.
Optimize program running.
Every running program has its own preferential order because all the programs have to take up processors resources. Normally, there are thirty-one preferential ranks in the computer. The kernel of system takes up the highest ranks which can guarantee the stability of system while the ordinary applications are put in the back ranks. As a matter of fact, you can adjust the preference of your own applications. In the “Windows Task Manager”, click “Process” and choose an application and then right-click it. In the popping up shortcut menu, you can choose the grades in the “Set Priority”. There are six grades: Real-time, High, Above Normal, Normal, Below Normal and Low. You can adjust the application higher or lower as you like. If you do not know the specific process of certain application, you can click “Application” tab and right-click a task and choose to switch to process. Then, you may find the detail of this application.
Close down system report.
When system goes crash, hard disk is creaking disturbingly because it is reading DUMP file which will be sent back to Microsoft. It is completely useless for the computer. Right-click “My Computer” and choose “Properties” > “Advanced” > “Startup and Recovery” > “Settings”, in the “System failure”, cross out “Write an event to the system log” and “Send an administrative alert” except “Automatically restart”.
In order to optimize Windows performance, it is advisable for you to adjust the default Windows settings because many are really good for nothing.
Optimize Computer Performance—Useful Methods to Improve Computer Performance
Dec 3rd
It is undoubted that computer is quite useful in this modern society, even most work can not be finished well without computer. So, high computer performance is so important for all the users. Well, in this article, I will tell you some methods to improve computer performance usefully.
You should not neglect the influence of using character on computer speed.
Although Microsoft claims that Windows operating systems can install over one thousand of characters, in fact, more than five hundred can bring about problems to your computer. For example, the character disappears from listing of applications and Windows startup speed falls obviously. Therefore, you can delete those characters that you do not use usually. Meanwhile, you are supposed to backup them in case any accidents happen in the future.
You can simplify Windows system.
Compared to DOS system, Windows is too bulky and becoming larger and larger as the daily operations such as installing new software, loading runtime library, adding new games and so on. What is worse, the registry and runtime library along with the directory become larger without question. Even though you have deleted certain program, its DLL files still exist there. As time goes by, DLL dynamic link library is increasing day by day when starting or exiting Windows. That is why system is running slower and slower. At this moment you need to get rid of those DLL programs completely. It is suggested that you can reinstall your system at proper time.
You should clear up file fragments in the hard disk regularly.
Hard disk is one of the computer assemblies that are used frequently. If you perform too many operations to hard disks, it can make files restore discontinuously and takes longer and longer to read files. At this time, you need to use disk defragmenting program provided by Windows systems. Such program is able to rearrange the files and available space in the hard disks in order to speed up file reading and program running. And at the same time, it can monitor software’s loading frequency and put frequently-used application into read fastest disk position so as to reduce the time to search for tracks as much as possible. By doing this, it can accelerate reading speed. You can start this program in “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”—“Disk Defragmenter”. Disk defragmentation can optimize computer performance for sure, it is worthwhile having a try. Or, you can use other specific defragmenting programs to help you if you dislike the slow speed of Windows program.
Besides, you can delete starting random programs.
What is starting random program? It is the program loaded when booting system. They can not only slow down booting speed but also expend computer resource and memory faster. You can type “Msconfig” in the “Run” to open system configuration to stop those disturbing programs.
By reading this article, I am sure you can learn some ways to optimize computer performance. But it is far from enough to improve computer speed, you ought to get more knowledge in this regard.
Slow PC Speed—How to Optimize Computer Performance
Nov 23rd
How to optimize your computer? It is really a question for most users. It is right that sometimes the computer viruses make trouble in the computer. Or you just need to use very simple methods to speed up your computer. This is what I want to tell you in this article.
Here, in this article I will mainly introduce the method of defragmenting disk to optimize computer performance.
Disk defragmentation is a process that combines and reunites the file fragments in the computer hard disk. Disk defragmentation is a tool that can help you rearrange the data and reunite the file fragments so as to accelerate computer speed efficiently. Since you restore, change or delete files in the hard disk, it can perform defragmentation to it. Normally, if you change your files, the altered information may not be put at the same place as the original ones. What is more, other changes may be put into different places. The empty space among those fragments can not restore any file. As time goes by, the files have to be separated into various parts and the space they have taken can not restore any file.
In fact, there are two ways to open disk defragmenting program in the Windows. First, you can click “Start”—“All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. Or, you can click “Start”—“Control Panel”—“Performance and Maintenance”—“Management Tools”—“Computer Management”, you can also find the defragmenting program in it. No matter how you open such program, you should analyze disk ahead of defragmentation.
And if there is something wrong with the disk, the defragmenting program can restore errors and problems at the very beginning, such as broken tracks. As a matter of fact, the function of disk running is to read and write. If these two working methods have any bad influence on your disk, to be honestly, the disk itself must have been broken already and it should not have any problem with defragmenting program. As for protecting disk, you had better not make collision among them and not lower the format of disk.
Besides defragmenting disk, you can try other ways to improve computer speed. Some programs in the computer can reduce PC speed when starting up computer. If you want to check problems in this regard, I suggest you to start computer under “Safe Mode”. Such mode is the original way to start up computer. In fact, starting “Safe Mode” is much slower than that of “Normal Mode”. But, if the condition is on the contrary–the former is faster than the latter, you have to take it seriously. It must be something wrong with the programs when you startup computer.
All in all, disk defragmentation is really a good method to optimize computer performance. If you are eager to solve this slow PC speed problem, you can not miss every way to achieve that goal.
Disk Defragment—Main Causes of Disk Fragments
Nov 18th
Even there is not any virus in your computer, it still cannot work fast as before, why? If you are an experienced computer user, it does not seem difficult for you, because you can defragment disks when the computer is becoming slow. It is really a good method to optimize computer performance.
Well in this article, I will tell you the main causes of disk fragments in a hope that it can help you prevent the disk fragments in advance.
The major cause should be blamed for the virtual memory programs. If there is not enough physical memory to run the application, the operating system can produce temporary swap files in the hard disks. Such file virtualizes the hard disk space as memory so its program can do massive read-write operations to the disk and create fragments. At the same time, during operating the files such as moving or deleting, Windows system may apply virtual memory to manage applications synchronically which may lead to the frequent read-write operations of every program to hard disks. This is another main resource of disk fragments.
What is more, if any sector is removed and then the system reads a new and smaller file into it, there may be some empty space beside this file. And if the system continues to write more files into this disk, the space between those two files can not put any new one any more. That is to say, the file has to be divided into several parts in order to put in the disk. See, file fragments are produces again.
If you are a movie fan and like to download from Internet, you have to pay close attention to the disk fragment problem. Once you are doing other operations during the downloading process, the film files are forced to separate into certain fragments and restore in the disk. So, downloading is one of the main causes of disk fragments. Besides, if file space is not large enough to support the frequent deleting and adding files operations, it can bring about a huge number of disk fragments as well. Such problem can go from bad to worse on the condition that you do that hourly.
Generally speaking, sometimes you may not be aware that when browsing websites or playing games, it can produce a mass of temporary files in the computer. Or when downloading video in your hard disks, it is easy to produce a lot of disk fragments. If you find computer performance is not so good as before, I suggest you to defragment disk firstly.
When performing defragmentation, please close down screen saver and do not do anything else in the computer such as listening music or playing game but just let defragmenting program run by itself. By doing this, you can not only speed up defragmenting speed but also prevent the program from starting again and again.
In order to facilitate the speed of defragmentation, you can also use certain defrag to help you. By using it, you can also protect your computer from any unexpected accidents during defragmentation.
Speed up Computer—How to Free up Disk Space
Nov 17th
If you have been using computer for a long time, it is inevitable that your computer is running not so fast as before. Since a large number of reasons can result in slow computer speed, you have to take different methods to solve them one by one. Here, I would like to share some helpful ways to speed up computer by freeing up disk space.
When the computer has been working for a period of time, there are a lot of junks piling in it which are produced by surfing on the Internet, reading or writing data, deleting or removing files and so forth. If you continue to turn a blind eye to it, it is no doubt that you have to suffer slow computer performance. In this regard, you should know how to get rid of those junks in order to optimize computer performance.
First, you should delete junk and temporary files without hesitation. Such ones occupy a lot of space and do nothing good to computer. So, removing them can help you free up disk space. Here are some tips for you to do that manually.
You can delete many useless files such as those system and driver backup ones. Or if you have updated or patched computer, you may find there are many files like “Nt Uninstall” under the “C: /WINDOWS” directory. You feel easy to remove all of them. Besides, you can move certain files out of the systematic disks so as to leave more space for the disk to run program more quickly.
Since you have removed the junks files of computer, the next step is to clear up fragments in the disk. Such fragments are so invisible that you can not delete them by removing certain files. That is to say, you have to use a professional program to do that for you. You can use the defragmenting program of Windows in the “All Programs”—“Accessories”—“System Tools”. You should scan the disk first and then perform disk defragmentation
As for scanning disk, it is a necessary step for the computer, since the program needs to gather the specific data to defragment disk. You can choose “Disk Cleanup” in the “System Tools” to scan the disk. It comes to defragmentation next. You can choose “Disk Defragmenter” in the “System Tools” as well. And then all you have to do is to wait for the defragmenting program complete the task. If you are not so busy, it is OK for you to use this program. But if not, I think you should think carefully whether to use it or not, because such Windows program is really time-consuming.
In order to speed up defragmentation, I think you to use third-party tools, since they are the experts in this regard. But among the market that good and bad mix together, you should be more cautious to choose defrag. Therefore, according to my experience, I recommend you to use a program named “Advanced Defrag” which stands out of its kinds. You can not miss such helpful tool.
Optimize Computer Performance—How to Optimize PC System
Nov 5th
If computer has become indispensable for you in the daily life, I think it is indispensable for to learn how to optimize system. The computer, like a machine, needs proper protection and maintenance to keep its performance in the high level. Otherwise, it may run slower and slower, even go awry easily.
In this regard, you are bound to know how to optimize computer performance in case any unexpected accident happens, though your computer is still working very well. And, you can find the satisfactory answers in this article.
Close down the system restore function. It is not so useful but occupies a large number of spaces. Right-click “My Computer” to open “System Properties”, in the “System Restore” tab, tick “Turn off System Restore” and click “Apply” and “OK”, you can shut it down.
Close down error report because it is helpful for Microsoft directly but not for you. Also in the “System Properties”, click “Advanced” > “Error Reporting”, in the tab, you can choose “Disable error reporting”. Now you can forbid reporting the errors so that free up plenty of spaces.
Besides, you should not put so many files or icons on the desktop. If you do not use some frequently, it is better for you not to put them on it. And, you also need to reduce the starting loading items as many as possible. Some programs are not used often since being installed. It is advisable for you not to load them when starting. You can also move application and documentary install to other directory rather than in the systematic ones.
All of these are good ways to optimize computer performance by freeing up space. Moreover, do not forget defragment your disk. Regular defragmentation is quite helpful to speed up computer obviously by removing a pile of junk files. You can have a try in the Accessories.
Above all the methods I have introduced, you may have found that except defragmentation, others are required you to make some changes of the previous computer settings. Therefore, if you are not an experienced user or an adventurer, you had better to choose defragment disk securely because it is less risky for your computer.
If you a newbie of computer, you really need to know how to defragment disk by using Windows program. It is put in the “All Programs” > “Accessories” > “System Tools”. You should bear in mind that the defragmentation should be follow three steps: clean up, scan and defragment. It is the correct approach to optimize computer by defragmenting. But, after you have tried this program, do you feel boring to wait the defragmentation? It definitely costs a lot of time to finish it.
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Defragmentation— How to avoid defragment problems
Nov 1st
Defragmentation is a very effective method to optimize computer performance. But when defragmenting the computer, PC users will meet kinds of defragment problems to some extent, for example, the defragment process stuck at about 10% or 30% without going any further. If you do, please be patient to read this article for some necessary knowledge about defragmentation, so as to smoothly defragment the computer.
We all know that Microsoft window operating system always provides users a package free disk defragmenter so as to defragment the computer manually. Normally, you can go to go to Start -> All Programs -> System Tools -> Accessories -> Disk Defragmenter -> Fragment to begin a defragment process. But it if it is not listed there, you can go to My Computer -> right click the drive you want to defrag and select Properties -> Tools -> press Defragment Now within Defragmentation to defragment the computer.
Besides, in order to ensure a smooth defragmentation, it is necessary to do the below preparations:
1) Run disk cleanup to remove some files that are no longer used. Please open My Computer-> right click the disk you want to clean up to select Properties -> click Disk Cleanup within General -> select the files to be deleted within the popping- up Disk Cleanup wizard -> Press OK -> click Yes when it asks you “Are you sure you want to perforce these actions”. Hence, the system will automatically clear the selected files.
2) Run error-checking to check and correct a wide range of hard disk error. open My Computer -> right click the disk to be checked and then select Properties -> Tools on the top -> press Check Now within Error –checking -> tick the two tabs “Automatically fix file system errors” and “scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” -> Press Start to begin the checking.
After the above preparation, the defragmentation will be a little faster. But most of the time, to avoid defragment problems, it is much better to first close all other running programs or get into windows safe mode before the defragmentation. But if you still have problems in defragmenting your computer, try the defrag program here. It will speed up you solve your fragmented computer soon.
Optimize Computer Performance—Some Useful Knowledge about Files
Oct 29th
After using computer for a long time, you may find that there are a large number of fragments in the hard disk. Some of them are useless, backup or temporary files which waste plenty of spaces of the disk.
So, if you want to optimize your computer, they should be removed in the first place. And, in this article, you can learn something about the files which may help you in speeding you computer.
First of all, when deleting, moving or uninstalling the programs, it is likely to bring about enormous files. If you want to remove them, you should be very careful. Generally, if you are running large software, you ought not to delete the temporary files. For example, if you delete the enormous temporary files when Photoshop is disposing the pictures, it may result in that Photoshop can not work well.
For example, the TEMP catalog in the C root directory is the base for many tool program temporary files. Without it, it is impossible to set TEMP so that these programs may go wrong. In this regard, what you really need to delete is the junk files instead of the whole catalog.
In the Windows, there is usually a TEMP files where is the system default place for temporary files. It is better not to remove the whole directory and just to clear up the junks regularly.
And, as for the TEMP in the Word installing directory, they are protected when using Word software. If your computer falls into blue screen when using Word, you can open it first and the program may read the latest preserved result from temporary and restore your word maximally. See, sometimes the TMP files are very useful. But, if you really want to delete them, you can save it and then remove them.
Since so many files are crammed in the disks that hinder the speed of your computer, you have to remove the files immediately. And, if you find it is complicated to do it manually, you can click here to find a professional tool to help.